jpdb beta

to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach

1

god of thunder; Raijin (god of thunder)

1

disastrous scene; terrible spectacle

1

forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money

2

stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser

1

(being moved) deeply; (feeling) profoundly; (going) straight to one's heart; going numb; stinging (pain)

1

mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth

1

heaps; a lot; plenty; with a thud

3

investigator (usu. of criminal cases)

5

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

5

design; stylization

1

in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other

2

somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other

1

on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton

1

bargain sale; selling cheaply; selling at a low price; giving out (too) readily; handing out freely; selling (oneself) short

2

right foot; right leg

1

left foot; left leg

1

(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)

2

letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.

1

to become dirty; to become grimy; to become filthy; to get stained with dirt

1

stickily; gooily; syrupily

2

pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty

4

stripe; bar; streak; (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)

2

in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless

1

somehow; without knowing (it); unconsciously; unthinkingly

2

tree stump; stubble (rice, etc.)

2

bed sheets

1

to lift; to turn over; to fold over

1

very messy; (stuff) all over the place; (lit.) no space even for one's feet

1

bedcover; bedspread

2

poor-looking; impoverished-looking; scrawny (e.g. figure); thin-looking; sparse (e.g. meal)

2

(police) lineup; identification parade; choice of faces

1

one or two; a few; small number

3

doddering; tottering; unsteady; shaky; decrepit; infirm

1

heart attack; to have a heart attack

1

stroke; cerebral haemorrhage; cerebral hemorrhage

1

cerebral stroke; apoplexy

2

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)

1

bribe; sweetener; douceur

1

to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune

1

paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins

3

morbid; unhealthful; insalubrious

2

to be second to none (in)

1

to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away

2

spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

29

not at all; not in the least

1

negligence; carelessness

1

gentleman; well-bred man; well-educated man; people

2

covered in blood; bloodstained; bloody; gory

1

to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)

1